Poets called it the Golden Age. A golden age now describes a historical period of great artistic,scientific or economic progress.

VOA: special.2010.06.06

American children now spend an average of seven and a half hours a day watching television or playing with electronic devices.

VOA: special.2010.06.07

The Chronicle of Higher Education says at least fifty-eight private colleges now charge fifty thousand dollars or more a year.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

Companies,labor unions and other organizations may now spend as they wish on independent efforts to elect or defeat candidates.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

People who grew up listening to it are now old enough to listen with their own children, or even their grandchildren.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

Now customers can also use their M-Pesa accounts to pay bills, make purchases or pay for services like taxis.

VOA: special.2009.11.02

Now,for this business to work, we must be able to produce a charming widow, with or without the beauty, as advertised."

VOA: special.2010.04.24

Now,researchers with the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago are working on another method called TMR, or targeted muscle reinnervation.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

Or the British could have been killed by Spanish troops who came up from what is now Florida.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

People could now see battlefield deaths as captured by a camera rather than an artist's pen or paintbrush.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated,can long endure.

VOA: special.2011.02.07

Millions of Americans now use a debit card or credit card, instead of paper money or checks, to make most of their purchases.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

But now a program called Kilimo Salama, or safe farming, offers low-cost insurance in parts of Kenya.

VOA: special.2010.05.11

Now heat the dye for about forty-five minutes or until the wool is the desired color.

VOA: special.2010.08.02